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Doing the "Write" Thing: Handwriting and Typing Support in Secondary Schools in England
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Emma Sumner; Ruth Nightingale; Karen Gurney; Mellissa Prunty; Anna L. Barnett – Literacy, 2024
Students must be able to produce legible and fluent text when completing classwork and for exam purposes. Some students, however, present with handwriting difficulties in secondary school. When these are significant, intervention may be necessary or alternatives to handwriting may be offered (e.g. use of a word processor). Little is known about…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Office Occupations, Word Processing
The Dark Side of Text-Matching Software: Worries and Counterproductive Behaviour among European Upper Secondary School and Bachelor Students
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Mads Paludan Goddiksen; Mikkel Willum Johansen; Anna Catharina Vieira Armond; Mateja Centa; Christine Clavien; Eugenijus Gefenas; Nóra Kovács; Marcus Tang Merit; I. Anna S. Olsson; Margarita Poškute; Júlio Borlido Santos; Rita Santos; Vojko Strahovnik; Orsolya Varga; P. J. Wall; Peter Sandøe; Thomas Bøker Lund – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2024
Text-matching software (TMS) is a standard part of efforts to prevent and detect plagiarism in upper secondary and higher education. While there are many studies on the potential benefits of using this technology, few studies look into potential unintended side effects. These side effects include students worrying about being accused of plagiarism…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Secondary School Students, Bachelors Degrees, Undergraduate Students
'I'm Rewriting the Law' When Children Bring Literacy into Nursery School
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Lars Holm; Helle Pia Laursen; Annegrethe Ahrenkiel – Literacy, 2024
Based on an analysis of three literacy events in nursery schools, this article focuses on how literacy forms part of children's social practices and co-creates the language environment in the nursery and how place, affect and materiality play a key role in children's multimodal and embodied meaning-making around literacy. The analysis is based on…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Preschools, Young Children, Social Behavior
textBox: An Intermedia History of Chinese Word Processing
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Biyi Wen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation is an inquiry into the history of Chinese computer-based word processing technologies from 1958 to 1997. My purpose in looking into the history is to answer, how the development and usage of word-processing technologies have contributed to knowledge production, by shaping the understanding of what information technologies can do.…
Descriptors: History, Chinese, Word Processing, Computer Software
Teacher Engagement with Automated Text Simplification for Differentiated Instruction
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Fengkai Liu; Yishi Jiang; Chun Lai; Tan Jin – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
Differentiated instruction is much demanded yet quite challenging in face of the growing student diversity in today's K-12 classrooms. One major challenge is the provision of differentiated materials to students. Automated text simplification (ATS) tools fueled by natural language processing may serve as a useful assistant for teachers. However,…
Descriptors: Automation, Individualized Instruction, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education
Do Typing Skills Matter? Investigating University Students' Typing Speed and Performance in Online Exams
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Laura Sperl; Clara Marie Breier; Eric Grießbach; Stefan R. Schweinberger – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
In response to COVID-19, universities worldwide experienced drastic and sudden changes including the need to shift to online teaching and assessment. Following previous research suggesting that individual differences in typing skills could influence text quantity and quality, we investigated whether university students' typing speed is related to…
Descriptors: Office Occupations Education, College Freshmen, Skill Development, Online Courses